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SAN CASCIANO IN VAL DI PESA
San Casciano di Val di Pesa is an important wine district
and the historical centre preserves great parts of the boundary
wall which were raised in the 14th century by the Florentine Republic.
Do not miss the Collegiata di San Cassiano from the 18th century,
where a Crucifix from the workshop of Baccio da Montelupo is preserved,
and the palaces along the antique road Via Cassia.
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Misericordia Church or the Santa Maria del Prato Church, hosts the
Museo della Misericordia which features precious art works, among
which a marble pulpit decorated with bas-relieves by Giovanni di Balduccio,
important Florentine and Senese paintings from the 14th century to
the 17th century, and an extraordinary Crucifix by Simone Martini.
In the Church Santa Maria del Gesù you find the Museo Vicariale
di Arte Sacra, which hosts paintings, sculptures and marvellous gold-works
from the surrounding churches. It also houses two masterpieces by
the so-called "primitive" painters: San Michele Arcangelo,
attributed to Coppo di Marcovaldo, and the Madonna with Child by Ambrogio
Lorenzetti. In the small and pretty hamlet Sant'Andrea in Percussina,
which features the head-quarter of the Consorzio del Marchio Storico
Chianti Classico, you also find the so-called "Albergaccio"
where Nicolò Machiavelli lived during his exile. The great
Renaissance thinker had to leave Florence in 1512, when the Medici
family came back from their expulsion. It was here where Machiavelli
wrote his most famous book, The Prince. Today the residence belongs
to the association Gruppo Italiano Vino which has restructured it
carefully. You can visit the villa, the wine cellars and by a picturesque
underground corridor you reach the Osteria described by Machiavelli
in one of his best known letters. |
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